Today, I'm sharing another way to stretch the use of the Spring tulips stencil set. Hand-drawing is not one of my skills, so I welcome any workaround to help me hand-draw a little something. For today's project, I used the Alex Syberia Designs Spring tulips stencil set to draw the outlines of the tulips, as well as their details.
This project is one of the 5 projects I created for the July issue of the Creative Stamping Magazine No. 150. The projects all follow the same color scheme (red, yellow, orange, green and turquoise).
Alex Syberia Designs products:
Spring tulips stencil set
Nested scalloped frames die set
Meadow magic cover die
From our hearts stamp set
From our hearts die set
Supplies:
Neenah classic crest card 216 GSM ultra smooth solar white
Crafter's companion white multi-purpose heavy cardstock 300 GSM
My Favorite Things dark blue cardstock (retired paper pack with various colors)
Versamark ink
Wow! White embossing powder
Pear Blossom Press Sentiment stoc
Ranger Distress oxides: Black soot, Carved pumpkin, Crackling campfire and Lumberjack plaid
Copic markers
Stick it 2-mm foam tape
Bearly art precision craft glue
For this project, I'm sharing a tip for stretching the use of your stencils. And if like me you are uncomfortable drawing, stencils are a very good starting point to unleash your creativity and grow your skills.
For the tulips, I cut a panel from Neenah classic crest cardtock 5" by 6" and I used each layer of the Alex Syberia Designs Spring tulips stencil set, to draw the outlines of the tulips with a pencil.
I then hand-drew each petal, erasing unneeded highlights from the stencil to replace by solid lines, keeping only outlines.
I then colored the tulips with Copic markers:
Petals: B28, B26, B24, B21, BG05, BG01 and BG000
Leaves and stems: G29, G46, G94, YG67, YG25, YG23 and YG01
With a Copic liner, I added the stamens in the two open tulips.
I then fussy cut the tulips with a pair of scissors, along the edges. I also used a craft knife to reach smaller areas between the stems.
For the background, I used the Alex Syberia Designs Meadow magic cover die which I die cut from dark blue cardstock and darkened the edges and corners with Ranger Distress oxide Black soot.
For the frame, I used the Nested scalloped frames die set and combined the largest scalloped rectangle with the second rectangle die to create a frame from Neenah classic crest cardstock. I then blended Ranger Distress oxides: Carved pumpkin, Crackling campfire and Lumberjack plaid, blending from the inside to the edges.
I adhered the frame onto the meadow background with foam tape, at an angle. I then adhered the tulips with foam tape, except where the tulips rest on the frame.
For the sentiment, I used the Alex Syberia Designs From our hearts stamp set, and, using masking tape, I stamped the first half of the "Sending love" sentiment and the script Love stamp, on Pear Blossom Press black sentiment cardstock, with Versamark ink. I heat set the sentiments with Wow! white embossing powder. I then used the coordinating dies to cut the sentiments, and trimmed off the word love from the "Sending love" sentiment, with a pair of scissors.
I then adhered the sentiments with liquid adhesive.
Finally, I prepared a cardbase, 4.5" by 5.75", from Crafter's companion white multi-purpose cardstock. I adhered the front panel with liquid adhesive.
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